Atheist Nexus2015-03-04T00:14:34ZSteph S.http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/StephShttp://api.ning.com:80/files/wWCfc0zEZZw-kdFSybh9cW8bJQp4rTAnDdIxcIm-QrbNdh2b03Ig1uecr-V02xQQgQqVF6gNL3y*XgHdvh2dTAi5D1OhAbLP/WWavatar.jpg?width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://www.atheistnexus.org/group/mediaissues/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=2212h7ukw07nd&feed=yes&xn_auth=noSenators asked for more tv coverage of climate changetag:www.atheistnexus.org,2014-07-22:2182797:Topic:24501262014-07-22T22:40:19.886ZSteph S.http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/StephS
<p><a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/07/21/sunday-shows-cover-climate-change-as-much-in-fi/200138" target="_blank">Sunday Shows Cover Climate Change As Much In First Half Of 2014 As In Last Four Years Combined</a></p>
<p>Nine senators asked the executives at executives at ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and Fox News for more coverage of climate change as a huge threat to our nation.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>U.S. Senators Demanded More Climate Change Coverage On Sunday…</strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/07/21/sunday-shows-cover-climate-change-as-much-in-fi/200138" target="_blank">Sunday Shows Cover Climate Change As Much In First Half Of 2014 As In Last Four Years Combined</a></p>
<p>Nine senators asked the executives at executives at ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and Fox News for more coverage of climate change as a huge threat to our nation.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>U.S. Senators Demanded More Climate Change Coverage On Sunday Shows.</strong> In response to lackluster media coverage in 2013, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), along with eight other Democratic U.S. senators, forged a campaign in January to get more people talking about how to mitigate climate change, starting by demanding greater coverage of the issue from the Sunday shows. The senators sent a letter to executives at ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and Fox News, asking why "shockingly little discussion" involved climate change as part of these Sunday shows.</p>
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<p>This is what they got.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/2014/07/16/broadcast_2014_study_update_false_balance_FINAL.png"><img class="align-center" src="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/2014/07/16/broadcast_2014_study_update_false_balance_FINAL.png"/></a></p> Click Futilitytag:www.atheistnexus.org,2014-06-24:2182797:Topic:24387632014-06-24T19:04:19.429ZSteph S.http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/StephS
<p><a href="http://www.clicktivist.org/what-is-clicktivism/" target="_blank">Clicktivism</a>, we've all done it, sent emails to support a cause. Apparently it's useless.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alternet.org/books/why-internet-hasnt-transformed-politics-yet?paging=off&amp;current_page=1" target="_blank">Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet)</a></p>
<blockquote><p dir="ltr" id="bookmark">Progressive online organizations have sprouted up, such as MoveOn, but their primary business…</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.clicktivist.org/what-is-clicktivism/" target="_blank">Clicktivism</a>, we've all done it, sent emails to support a cause. Apparently it's useless.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alternet.org/books/why-internet-hasnt-transformed-politics-yet?paging=off&amp;current_page=1" target="_blank">Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet)</a></p>
<blockquote><p id="bookmark" dir="ltr">Progressive online organizations have sprouted up, such as MoveOn, but their primary business model relies upon capturing emails by supporters who sign online petitions. <strong>This is the for-profit model of Change.org, which sells emails from its petitions for up to a dollar a pop.</strong> If you’re like me, you have dozens of emails arriving in your inbox every day from causes that you may not even remember signing up for, and the chances are that your email was merely bought from a group like Change.org.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Meanwhile, <strong>no one reads those automated emails you send</strong>, as Sifry notes: “Most members of Congress and their staffs say they ignore emails or other social media messages from non-constituents, and pay little attention to all electronic communications they receive, whether from constituents or not. Letters, phone calls, and office visits matter much more.” [emphasis mine]</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><a target="_self" href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/dUBGrCUuK8RheuzFeHieh4r9slUiuYbjGiKHXohzJ5E4CO-CclxQiM*PRX8rJvZH6k6k6Y53PtRKifohOl807J3wgtqwo1wy/changeclick.gif"><img class="align-center" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/dUBGrCUuK8RheuzFeHieh4r9slUiuYbjGiKHXohzJ5E4CO-CclxQiM*PRX8rJvZH6k6k6Y53PtRKifohOl807J3wgtqwo1wy/changeclick.gif" width="421"/></a></p> Climate Change "debate" on TVtag:www.atheistnexus.org,2014-05-12:2182797:Topic:24219112014-05-12T17:27:08.838ZSteph S.http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/StephS
<p>A funny look at TV climate coverage.</p>
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<p>A funny look at TV climate coverage.</p>
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</p> When corrupt politics controls the newstag:www.atheistnexus.org,2014-05-11:2182797:Topic:24216132014-05-11T17:35:22.617ZSteph S.http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/StephS
<p>Fox News's treatment of the so called Benghazi scandal brings to mind <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_W._Riggs" target="_blank">Fred W. Rigg's theory of comparative public administration</a>.</p>
<p>Riggs compared the way public administration differs in developed countries with that in developing countries. He payed attention to the way structures served their functions. For example in a well functioning country a person's religion, ethnicity, or personal connections wouldn't…</p>
<p>Fox News's treatment of the so called Benghazi scandal brings to mind <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_W._Riggs" target="_blank">Fred W. Rigg's theory of comparative public administration</a>.</p>
<p>Riggs compared the way public administration differs in developed countries with that in developing countries. He payed attention to the way structures served their functions. For example in a well functioning country a person's religion, ethnicity, or personal connections wouldn't effect how he/she was hired for public office or carried out the job. Qualifications would be based on merit. Religious authorities or the politically powerful wouldn't be able to get away with taking others property, or with breaking the law. Nepotism wouldn't taint public service. Corruption wouldn't be institutionalized. <strong>Economic (banking), social, communicative (media), symbolic and political functions would each be carried out by independent structures.</strong> The extent to which separation of functions is compromised, for example by religion overtaking politics, monied interests overtaking politics, social celebrities influencing politics, or politicians manipulating businesses, indicates the extent to which a society is <em>inherently</em> corrupt and developmentally disabled.</p>
<p>I used to think the US was a developed country, but more and more we exhibit developing country traits like these:</p>
<p>Wall street's control of politics, reaching into the Supreme Court</p>
<p>Christian Fundamentalism/ political right unity, reaching into public school funding</p>
<p>Mass media controlled by political interests, so that manufactured scandal for political fund raising purposes replaces real news.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/how-fox-news-dresses-extreme-right-wing-conspiracy-theories-news?page=0%2C0" target="_blank">How Fox News Dresses Up Extreme Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories as News</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/top-10-reasons-gops-benghazi-witch-hunt-just-fundraising-ploy" target="_blank">Top 10 Reasons the GOP's Benghazi Witch Hunt Is Just a Fundraising Ploy</a></p>
<p></p> The end of all news isn't newstag:www.atheistnexus.org,2014-02-04:2182797:Topic:23757382014-02-04T02:21:17.003ZSteph S.http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/StephS
<p><a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/humans-could-really-bring-about-end-world-climate-and-nuclear-disasters?paging=off&amp;current_page=1" target="_blank">Humans Could Really Bring About the End of the World via Climate and Nuclear Disasters</a></p>
<p>Tom Engelhardt argues that the idea of a futureless humanity is difficult to take in—so the media just doesn't cover it.…</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/humans-could-really-bring-about-end-world-climate-and-nuclear-disasters?paging=off&amp;current_page=1" target="_blank">Humans Could Really Bring About the End of the World via Climate and Nuclear Disasters</a></p>
<p>Tom Engelhardt argues that the idea of a futureless humanity is difficult to take in—so the media just doesn't cover it.</p>
<blockquote><p><a target="_self" href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/mhrng7eeJg3Mw-ubyi5XP4RDQs7q*A5jsja51h0IjkD-Fd640JCP0SGOV3Zds9SjgyD4tOkRHWFNdBXrRdXnM7WgOtwLO-mW/futurelesshumanity.gif"><img class="align-center" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/mhrng7eeJg3Mw-ubyi5XP4RDQs7q*A5jsja51h0IjkD-Fd640JCP0SGOV3Zds9SjgyD4tOkRHWFNdBXrRdXnM7WgOtwLO-mW/futurelesshumanity.gif" width="400"/></a>... <strong>climate change</strong> itself is an enormous story, if what you mean is Story with a capital S. <strong>It could even be considered the story of all stories. It’s just that climate change and its component parts are unlike every other story ...</strong></p>
<p><strong>The future</strong> of all other stories, of the <strong>news and storytelling itself, rests on just how climate change manifests itself o</strong>ver the coming decades or even century.</p>
<p>What happens ... in our wars, politics, and culture, who is celebrated and who ignored -- none of it will matter if climate change devastates the planet.</p>
<p><strong>Climate change</strong> isn’t the news and it isn’t a set of news stories. <strong>It’s the prospective end of all news.</strong></p>
<p>... it’s ... on a different scale from everything else, which is why journalists and environmentalists often have so much trouble figuring out how to write about it in a way that leaves it continually in the news.</p>
<p>... the momentousness of climate change, which isn’t hard to discern, is difficult to regularly turn into meaningful “new” headlines (“Humanity Doomed If...”), to repeatedly and successfully translate into a form oriented to the present and the passing moment, to what happened yesterday, today, and possibly tomorrow.</p>
<p>In other words, unlike “the news,” climate change and its potential devastations exist on a time scale not congenial either to media time or to the individual lifetimes of our short-lived species. </p>
<p>... nuclear arsenals, too, were potential life-enders and so news-enders. As a result, most of the time their existence and development managed to translate poorly into daily headlines.</p>
<p>For so many of those years in ... the Cold War stand-off, the nuclear issue was somehow everywhere, a kind of exterminationist grid over life itself, and yet, like climate change, nowhere at all.</p>
<p>If the end of the world doesn’t fit well with “the news,” neither does denial. <strong>The idea of a futureless humanity is difficult to take in and that has undoubtedly played a role in suppressing the newsiness</strong> of both the nuclear situation and climate change. Each is now woven into our lives in essential, if little acknowledged, ways and yet both remain remarkably recessive. <strong>Add to that a fatalistic feeling among many that these are issues beyond our capacity to deal with, and you have a potent brew not just for the repression of news but also for the failure to weave what news we do get into a larger picture that we could keep before us as we live our lives.</strong> Who, after all, wants to live life like that?</p>
<p>And yet nuclear weapons and climate change are human creations, which means that the problems they represent have human solutions. They are quite literally in our hands.</p>
<p>In fact, <strong>one of the grim wonders of climate change has been the ability of Big Energy and its lobbyists to politicize an issue that wouldn't normally have a “left” or “right,”</strong> and to make bad science into an ongoing news story. In other words, an achievement that couldn’t be more <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175703/engelhardt_terracide_and_the_terrarists">criminal</a> in nature has also been their great <em>coup de théâtre</em>.</p>
<p>In a world heading toward the brink, here’s the strange thing: most of the time that brink is nowhere in sight. And how can you get people together to solve a human-caused problem when it’s so seldom meaningfully in the news (and so regularly challenged by energy interests when it is)? [emphasis mine]</p>
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<p><strong>The failure to weave what news we do get into a larger picture that we could keep before us as we live our lives</strong> encapsulates our challenge of collective denial. We face a painful threshold, which requires re-imagining reality and ourselves. It's the brave path, the only real life affirming path we have left.</p>
<p></p> USA Today promotes Heartland Institute liestag:www.atheistnexus.org,2013-10-20:2182797:Topic:23175762013-10-20T16:13:49.016ZSteph S.http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/StephS
<p><a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/15/usa-today-balances-hundreds-of-scientists-with/196433" target="_blank">USA TODAY "Balances" Hundreds Of Scientists With Fossil-Fuel Backed Group</a></p>
<p>USA Today joins the Washington Post and Bloomberg news in treating the head of Heartland Institute as a credible expert on Climate Change, publishing outright lies.</p>
<blockquote><p>Latest Paper To Mainstream Noxious Heartland Institute's Lies</p>
<p><i>USA TODAY</i> became the…</p>
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<p><a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/15/usa-today-balances-hundreds-of-scientists-with/196433" target="_blank">USA TODAY "Balances" Hundreds Of Scientists With Fossil-Fuel Backed Group</a></p>
<p>USA Today joins the Washington Post and Bloomberg news in treating the head of Heartland Institute as a credible expert on Climate Change, publishing outright lies.</p>
<blockquote><p>Latest Paper To Mainstream Noxious Heartland Institute's Lies</p>
<p><i>USA TODAY</i> became the <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/10/10/study-media-sowed-doubt-in-coverage-of-un-clima/196387">latest</a> mainstream newspaper to incorrectly "balance" the views of the hundreds of scientists behind a major climate report with the the Heartland Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded organization ...</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/10/14/ipcc-climate-change-heartland-institute-editorials-debates/2983941/">op-ed</a> published by the newspaper Tuesday, the head of the organization portrayed outright falsehoods as simply "opinion" in order to dismiss the United Nations panel behind the report as a "discredited oracle."</p>
<p>... the head of the Heartland Institute, Joseph Bast, counterfactually suggested in <i>USA TODAY</i> that "we are no more certain about the impact of man-made greenhouse gases than we were in 1990, or even in 1979."</p>
<p>A recent <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/10/10/study-media-sowed-doubt-in-coverage-of-un-clima/196387">study</a> by <i>Media Matters</i> found that <i><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ipcc-says-humans-cause-global-warming/2013/09/27/aae32880-275d-11e3-b3e9-d97fb087acd6_story.html">The Washington Post</a></i> and <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-09-27/global-warming-s-slower-pace-hardens-opinions-on-need-for-change">Bloomberg News</a> also turned to Bast, making him one of the most frequently quoted climate doubters in IPCC coverage. The <i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/28/science/global-climate-change-report.html?pagewanted=all">New York Times</a></i> quoted a report backed by the Heartland Institute. None of these newspapers disclosed that Heartland has recently <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/28/meet-the-climate-denial-machine/191545#heartland">received</a> funding from the Charles Koch Foundation, backed by the CEO of a corporation with major oil interests, ...</p>
<p>Heartland Institute's background is relevant, as much of the "evidence" that Bast cites in his op-ed came from his own organization -- from <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen">non-climate</a> scientists <a href="http://heartland.org/events/heartland-author-series-age-global-warming-rupert-darwall">associated</a> with Heartland, to a <a href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2013/09/09/heartland-institute-nipcc-fail-the-credibility-test/">report</a> published by the organization that includes <a href="http://climatechangereconsidered.org/nipcc-scientists/">authors</a> that have been <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/CASE-STUDY-Dr-Willie-Soon-a-Career-Fueled-by-Big-Oil-and-Coal/">directly funded</a> by the fossil fuel industry.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/2013/10/10/opinions-facts.jpg"><img class="align-center" src="http://mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/2013/10/10/opinions-facts.jpg?width=450" width="450"/></a></p> Climate Change isn't an environmental storytag:www.atheistnexus.org,2013-08-23:2182797:Topic:22903722013-08-23T17:56:40.860ZSteph S.http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/StephS
<p>David Roberts decries the way media cover Climate Change.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/08/climate-change-environmental-journalism-david-roberts" target="_blank">Climate Change's Original Sin</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Climate change is about rapidly accelerating changes in the substrate of modern civilization, the weather patterns and sea levels that have held relatively steady throughout all advanced human development. By its nature, it affects everything that…</p>
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<p>David Roberts decries the way media cover Climate Change.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/08/climate-change-environmental-journalism-david-roberts" target="_blank">Climate Change's Original Sin</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Climate change is about rapidly accelerating changes in the substrate of modern civilization, the weather patterns and sea levels that have held relatively steady throughout all advanced human development. By its nature, it affects everything that rests on that substrate: agriculture, land use, transportation, energy, politics, behavior…everything. <span class="font-size-4"><strong>Climate change is not "a story," but a background condition for <em>all future stories</em>.</strong></span> The idea that it should or could be adequately covered by a subset of "environmental journalists" was always an insane fiction. [emphasis mine]</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://mjcdn.motherjones.com/preset_51/journalist630.jpg"><img class="align-center" src="http://mjcdn.motherjones.com/preset_51/journalist630.jpg?width=450" width="450"/></a></p> Effective communication with imagestag:www.atheistnexus.org,2013-07-11:2182797:Topic:22684142013-07-11T21:25:11.676ZSteph S.http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/StephS
<p><a href="http://www.climateaccess.org/blog/climate-change-visual-story-lab" target="_blank">Climate Change in the Visual Story Lab</a></p>
<p>Liz Banse summarizes the keys to effective Communication.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Is it visual?</strong> Whenever and wherever you can replace words with visuals, do so. Is there an image that encapsulates your message perfectly? Lead with it.…</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.climateaccess.org/blog/climate-change-visual-story-lab" target="_blank">Climate Change in the Visual Story Lab</a></p>
<p>Liz Banse summarizes the keys to effective Communication.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Is it visual?</strong> Whenever and wherever you can replace words with visuals, do so. Is there an image that encapsulates your message perfectly? Lead with it.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/global%20warming%20courtesy%20of%20Flickr%20user%20paul%20nine-o.jpg"><img class="align-center" src="http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/global%20warming%20courtesy%20of%20Flickr%20user%20paul%20nine-o.jpg?width=350" width="350"/></a></p>
<p><strong>Is it meaningful?</strong> Why should your audience care? Are you connecting your issue with your audience’s primary concerns...</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/BraaschHurricaneVictimHouseFL.104.jpg"><img class="align-center" src="http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/BraaschHurricaneVictimHouseFL.104.jpg?width=350" width="350"/></a></p>
<p><strong>Is it shareable?</strong> How do they ensure that their message does not get lost when that awesome picture they posted gets shared...? Text overlay. ... Pair your images with words, so that when your pictures fly across the Internet, they take the message (and the motivation) with them.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/350-org%20text%20overlay%20example.jpg"><img class="align-center" src="http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/350-org%20text%20overlay%20example.jpg"/></a></p>
<p><strong>Is it emotional?</strong> Simply put, emotions drive human decision making. Pictures and video are some of the most effective mediums for conveying emotion. Do you know what emotions drive your audience to action? If you don’t know what works best, it’s time for more <a href="http://www.resource-media.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Email-AB-testing-guide.pdf" target="_blank">testing</a>. Hope? Awe? Fear? Anger? These are all high arousal emotions that get people to care about something. As Jonah Berger, author of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/books/contagious-why-things-catch-on-by-jonah-berger.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Contagious</a>, says, when we care, we share.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/man%20corn%20drought%20dreamstime.JPG"><img class="align-center" src="http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/man%20corn%20drought%20dreamstime.JPG?width=350" width="350"/></a></p>
<p><strong>Is it harmonious?</strong></p>
<p>Does your verbal message match your visual message? The brain scientists tell us that the visual sense is the dominant sense. If your verbal message says one thing (“don’t litter!), but your visual message shows something else (a littered landscape),...</p>
<p><strong>Is it authentic?</strong> Choose genuine over generic images. People linger over them – whether on a website or on a wall – simply because they are more interesting, a snapshot of reality.</p>
</blockquote> Louisiana criminalizes journalismtag:www.atheistnexus.org,2013-06-25:2182797:Topic:22592452013-06-25T23:05:53.626ZSteph S.http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/StephS
<p><a href="http://www.alternet.org/media/louisiana-just-criminalized-journalism" target="_blank">Just Like That, Louisiana Has Criminalized Journalism</a></p>
<p>Did you post a Facebook status that someone applied for a concealed handgun permit? If you live in Louisiana you just committed a felony -- go to jail for six months and pay $10,000.</p>
<blockquote><p>On June 19, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) …</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.alternet.org/media/louisiana-just-criminalized-journalism" target="_blank">Just Like That, Louisiana Has Criminalized Journalism</a></p>
<p>Did you post a Facebook status that someone applied for a concealed handgun permit? If you live in Louisiana you just committed a felony -- go to jail for six months and pay $10,000.</p>
<blockquote><p>On June 19, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) <a href="http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/06/gun_control_bobby_jindal_law.html" style="outline: none; color: #444444; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #cccccc;">signed a bill</a> that sets penalties of <a href="http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=857829&amp;n=HB8%20Act" style="outline: none; color: #444444; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #cccccc;">up to six months in jail</a> and $10,000 for those who publish "any information regarding the identity of any person who applied for or received a concealed handgun permit." The law includes exceptions for cases in which the concealed handgun holder is charged with a felony offense involving the use of a handgun.<br/><a target="_self" href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/AAHjN6ZC5ty1TvAabArrdLowo36LZp7qo07TaesOpjjU9e27Gd4cZihGg9y83uVXgWBXICqVNdCVEMg4tvJi9O5CG3H43HMP/felony.jpg"><img class="align-center" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/AAHjN6ZC5ty1TvAabArrdLowo36LZp7qo07TaesOpjjU9e27Gd4cZihGg9y83uVXgWBXICqVNdCVEMg4tvJi9O5CG3H43HMP/felony.jpg" width="250"/></a>Carl Redman, ...chairman of the Louisiana Press Association's Freedom of Information Committee,... called it <em> "</em><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #ff0000;">very ironic that the very people who screamed the loudest about attempts to limit their Second Amendment rights are here eager to limit my First Amendment rights</span>." [emphasis in red mine]</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.alternet.org/media/koch-brothers-plan-buy-eight-major-newspapers" target="_blank">Koch Brothers Plan to Buy up Eight Major Newspapers</a></p>
<p>Koch brothers bid to control US print media. *groan* Why does an image of Flash Gordon's Emperor Ming keep coming to my mind? Oh yeah, evil overlord trying to destroy the universe. Just multiply by two and dress in suits.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.alternet.org/media/koch-brothers-plan-buy-eight-major-newspapers" target="_blank">Koch Brothers Plan to Buy up Eight Major Newspapers</a></p>
<p>Koch brothers bid to control US print media. *groan* Why does an image of Flash Gordon's Emperor Ming keep coming to my mind? Oh yeah, evil overlord trying to destroy the universe. Just multiply by two and dress in suits.</p>
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<blockquote><p>The billionaire oil moguls Charles and David Koch are pushing ahead with <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/03/12/1708561/report-koch-brothers-looking-to-purchase-several-major-american-newspapers/">their plans</a> to purchase several news outlets across the United States, according to a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/business/media/koch-brothers-making-play-for-tribunes-newspapers.html?pagewanted=all">detailed report in the New York Times</a> on Sunday.</p>
<p>At a recent seminar in Aspen, one attendee reported that the brothers — infamous for bankrolling conservative candidates and causes — put forth the question of, “How do we make sure our voice is being heard?” Their answer, it seems, will be to purchase the entire Tribune company, <strong>which constitutes a huge swath of American print media</strong>... [emphasis mine]</p>
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